A film so good that, for most of its run time I forgot it had a gimmick. Its an incredibly effective example of the gimmick in question, but that's really the least if it.
From a very basic plot that allows experimentation to run free, there are so many competing avenues and elements that it is designed to obfuscate. Technically it is perfect. The performances are wild and over the topic but I don't think it would have worked had…
I count this among my favourites of 2024 (yes, I know it says 2023 but who the fuck had access to it in the world in 2023? I certainly fucking didn't).
Starve Acre is made in the truest sense of British ~folk horror~ in that it's not about the folk at all, even though it seems as though it might. It's about the land. The earth. Its about the British Isles of the Iron age, of the anglo-saxon age. Its…
Bloody. Hell.
You know when a film comes out of nowhere and just blindsides you? That oh so rare movie that taps into your most strongly held beliefs, your utmost desires, or your deepest, darkest fears?
In 2020, Vivarium is that film for me. It might also be for others, given what most of the free world is living through at the moment.
It is an absurd, kafkaesque, surreal nightmare. It deals with the rigours of mundanity, the horror of…
Ever get the feeling you watched a completely different film to everyone else?
Seems Os Perkins' latest has its fans, with others suggesting it sets the bar for 2024 horror. For me, it not so much set the bar as dropped the bar in a cowpat.
First, the good:
There are approximately 4 minutes of absolutely genre film DYNAMITE in here, and that's Nic Cage's screen time. His absolutely unhinged performance is incredible, both hysterical and visceral, rousing and unsettling,…
